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Example sentences for: sucking

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The story was accompanied by a front-page picture of the daughter sucking her thumb and staring blankly at television while holding one of her kids.
Only after I had ferried my cart to the next aisle did I figure out what she meant: tsk tsk , that half-pitying, half-disapproving sound made by pressing the tongue against the upper palate and teeth and sucking in slightly.
What did you think of the Dementors, those elegantly symbolic, bone-chilling villains in the latest, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ? They guard Azkaban, the wizard prison, by sucking hope from the prisoners, leaving them in a state of icy despair, as good a description of depression as I've ever read.
Aside from successful use of hypnosis in a pediatric pulmonology practice, as described in this report, other common pediatric problems that have been demonstrated to be amenable to treatment with hypnosis include attentional disorders, chronic pain, functional abdominal pain, enuresis, migraine headaches, nail biting, and thumb sucking.
Can you imagine the arts editor of the Los Angeles Times dressing down his lead critic for sucking up to the studios too much?